Mallika Srinivasan

Chairs privately held Chennai company with $1.3 billion in annual revenue.

Chairs privately held Chennai company with $1.3 billion in annual revenue. Srinivasan joined the family business in 1985 and is credited with catapulting it from a domestic player with $70 million in revenue. It's the second-largest tractormaker in India, after Mumbai's Mahindra & Mahindra, and the largest exporter of tractors from Indiaâ"selling to 67 countries. She has a master's in econometrics from the University of Madras and an M.B.A. from Wharton. Married to 2-wheeler tycoon Venu Srinivasan, with whom she has 2 children. Little-known fact: can drive a tractor as well as sell one.